A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon.

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace...

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.

Boy, the things I do for England.

Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.